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11/19/2013 10:49:36 AM
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Blizzard wants yearly WoW Expansions
Yep. Because the game itself, the subscription fee along with 4 expansions with a 5th on the way is not enough of a pay wall.
From a business sense it's logical, I suppose, but only in the short term, people won't keep buying expansions if the design suffers (Now I await the morons who make a joke about CoD) and the design will suffer if they try and speed up production to that level.
This, however, is coming from a non-subscriber to WoW so maybe it makes more sense to them.
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And then there's EVE which comes out with two expansions a year for free, the latest of which deployed today.
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1 ReplySo buy expansions Pay a subscription buy in game items for real money. Yea people just can't accept this behavior anymore, it's pure greed.
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£8 a month isn't really a lot if money nowadays, especially for a hobby most of us love. As long as the quality of the expansions remain high, and there are enough changes to warrant spending another £40 on a yearly expansion, then why not. Disclaimer: for those going to moan about the costs, you do have the option of not playing the game, right? And there is no pressure to buy a yearly expansion either, you aren't forced to. And if you can't afford it you shouldn't really be playing a sub-based MMO in the first place.
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It might keep people in the game, but it's going to stop/slow new subscriptions. The game is already expensive as hell along with all the expansion packs and fees it's just... not really worth getting into. At least in my opinion.
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You know when a new expac is released the previous one is free Right now you could create an account and only have to buy pandaland
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It'd be nice if they are quality. A one year wait in between major patches is absolutely terrible. If they can push them out faster, then more power to blizzard
